Enkaustikos Additives

Enkaustikos offers a variety of additives useful for encaustic painters, as well as artists working in other media.

Damar Resin — Damar Resin is a natural, sticky sap, harvested from trees that grow in the East Indies. The combination of damar resin with USP beeswax produces a harder, more durable paint film. This creates a luminous finish.

Rabbit Skin Glue — Encaustic painters often mix Rabbit Skin Glue with Titanium White paint and precipitated chalk to make a dry gesso for use as a base. Rabbit Skin Glue is sold as a powder and should be dissolved in warm water for use.

I was lucky to be given a bag of the Enkaustikos Damar Resin to use, along with white Beeswax, by an artist friend. I had never made my own encaustic medium before, but having the raw materials on hand I decided to try. These crystals melted beautifully, blended well with the melted beeswax and gave me a finished encaustic medium of excellent quality. Expect that there is a bit of tree bark/leaf matter that is trapped in the hard damar resin, though, so I have learned to filter the resulting medium through a fine material to remove this.

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